I want to turn chaotic colors into veils of light, purify the surface of who I am and touch my soul"
We have active beauty and passive beauty.
Beauty to be seen and beauty to be made.
But, what exactly is beauty? Is it just an ideal subjective response, a mental image or pure pleasure?
"Beauty is what serious people want to get beyond as quickly as possible when discussing works of art . "
Art Critic Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe
So what would intelligent beauty look like in this contemporary, conceptual art age where wit and intellect are revered over beauty?
A concept signifies reason: a presentation of sense. Beauty is a quality of a thing which gives pleasure to the senses. Does this offend our intellect? Beauty does not seem to have an origin. It exists by itself.
I think Beauty needs a new name beyond the concept of beauty for beauty's sake. How about the SUBLIME in beauty.
Sublime can be dark, or something even deeper. A true awakening of the senses, uplifting even, producing a sense of elevated aesthetics. Sublime is ROMANTIC!
I now procalaim myself a NEW- ROMANTIC. Or I want to go back to the place where the spiritualists that painted in the vain of Theosopy. A Search for the invisible links of connection that the human mind can not understand. I think there lie hints of intelligent beauty.
For the health of our soul, the healing of our planet, we need beauty. The deep emotional depths , the scary terrain of the unknown is beautiful.
The New -Romantics hover, waiting for divine grace to cohort with spirit in the creation of life.
The ultimate art in the making.
